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F. B. GLENGH.

DEVICE FOR EMBOSSING PHOTOGRAPHS.

No. 269,830. Patented Jan.- 2, 1883.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK B. OLENCH, OF LOOKPORT, NEiY YORK.

DEVICE FO R EM BOSSI NG PHOTOGRAPHS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,830, dated January2, 1883.

Application filed October 30, 1882. (No model.) I

10 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK B. ULENcH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lockport, county of Niagara, and State of New York, havemade certain Improvements in Devices for Embossing Photographs andPhotographic Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device by which photographs or a portion ofphotographic cards can be stamped or pressed into an oval concavity ormatrix and surrounded by a raised rim or ring, giving a plaque effect tosuch cards, and having,in connection with said device, a removableslide, which has an opening corresponding with the circle or oval in thebed or block, and which runs in grooves in the sides of said blockjustabove the ring, by which the exact position of the card to be embossedinto a plaque can be determined and the card set so that the embossingwill be in the right place, as fully hereinafter explained.

in the drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation, the slide incross-section; Fig. 2, a plan of the D016; Fig. 3, a side elevation incentral cross-section through line so a}, Fig. 2.

A represents the bed or block, made of wood or metal, and nearly square,with upright sides a a, in which are grooves 11 b for a removable slide,13, to run in. The face of the bed A is beveled off on all sides, asshown in Figs. 1 and 3, as at c c, (the object to be presentlyexplained,) and in the center of the bed a rounded-out or concavedepression, 0, is made, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) and around this is a raisedring or rim, r1. (See Figs. 1 and 3.) The slide B has an opening, 9, inthe center, corresponding in shape and size to opening and rim'O din thebed A.

In the grooves l) b are pinsff for the ends of the slide B to strikeagainst, andwhich are so placed as to bring the center of the slideexactlyover the center of the depression in the bed. Between the slideand the rim d beneath is a space, in which the card is put.

The working of the device is as follows: The slide B is first put intothe grooves 12 b and pushed againstthe pins ff. Then the card orphotograph is slid into the space between the slide B and bed A, andresting on the rim d. It is adjusted in exactly the right position toreceive the embossing by the ring or opening in the slide. It not forthis, it would be impossible to set the card exactly in the right placeover the rim, &c., beneath; but by this slide and opening therein it isdone in a moment. After it is set, then the slide B is withdrawn and arubber cushion (not shown) is set carefully on top of the card. Thiscushion is made to exactly till the space between the sides a, a of thebed, but rises above the sides a little to allow for the after pressure.The wholeisthen set into a press, and on Withdrawing it the photographwill be found to have received a concave depression and a raised orconvex rim all around it, caused by the simple devices above described.

The beveled face 0 0, before referred to, is to allow the card to bepressed thereon, thereby curving the card backward a little from thecentral rim, (1, as the beveled face of the block A extends in alldirections from the rim d. (Shown at o 0, Fig. 1, and e c, Fig. 3.) Thisgives a better appearance to the cards and overcomes somewhat thetendency of all photographs to curve forward.

I claim 1. The former or embosser consisting of the bed A and raisedsides a at, having the grooves b therein, the central concave orrounded-out depression, 0, the raised ring or rim (1, and the surface 00' of said bed A, beveled oft, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

2. In combination with the former or embosser A a a, the removable slideor adjuster B, having the central opening, g, therein, corresponding tothe opening 0 in the bed or former A, and running in grooves b b, allsubstantially as and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

FRANK B. OLENOH.

Witnesses 4 J. R. DRAKE, '1. H. FARSONS.

